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ID: 7003909
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7003909
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Naxos (deserted settlement)  Naxos (deserted settlement)

Coordinates:
Lat: 37 49 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 37.8167  decimal degrees
Long: 015 17 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 15.2833  decimal degrees

Note: Was site of first Greek colony on Sicily; was founded in 8th cen. BC, destroyed in 403 BC by Dionysius the Elder of Syracuse; subsequently Taormina supplanted Naxos as center of the area.

Names:
Naxos (preferred,C,V)  ............ ancient
Capo Schisò (C,V)
Punta di Schiso (C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Italia (nation)  ........  Italia (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Sicilia (region (administrative division))  ............  Sicilia (region (administrative division)) (P,C) part of unified Italy from 1861
Hierarchy of Messina (province)  ................  Messina (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Naxos (deserted settlement)  ....................  Naxos (deserted settlement) (P)

Place Types:
deserted settlement (preferred, C)  ............  founded ca. 735 BC, leveled in 403 BC
archaeological site (C)
inhabited place (H)

Sources and Contributors:
Capo Schisò..........  [GRLPSC]
.......................  Blue Guide: Sicily (1981) 168
Naxos..........  [GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
..............  Blue Guide: Sicily (1981) 168
..............  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 643
..............  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) 2997
..............  Rand McNally Atlas (1991) I-120
Punta di Schiso..........  [VP]
.............................  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) 2997
Subject: .....  [GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Blue Guide: Sicily (1981) 168
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 643
..................  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) 2997
..................  Rand McNally Atlas (1991) I-120
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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